Bag and twine holder.



G. E. HEDGE.

BAG AND TWINE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 5, 1909.

Patented May 10, 1910.

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CHARLES E. HEDGE, 0F BEAVERTON, OREGON.

BAG AND TVINE HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAELEs E. HEDGE, residing at Beaverton, in the county of lVashington and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Bag and Twine Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to store service appliances and it has for its object to provide a compact, neat and easily manipulated appliance for supporting paper bags and twine over the store counter, without taking up counter room, and in its general nature it comprehends a beam having means for pendently supporting paper bags or other similar goods holding members, sustained on flexible hangers, twine holders mounted on the beam and means for holding the ends of the twine in proper position for unthreading from the spool.

In its more complete nature, my invention comprehends a beam, a pair of twine holding spools mounted thereon, guides for threading and guiding the twine off the spools and a lifting arm for each twine spool, a flexible pendent support connected to each end of the beam and an improved connection between the flexible supports and each of the guides so arranged relatively to the twine holders and the beam, that the weight of the beam lifts the guides to raise the free ends of the twine when apulling tension thereon is released.

In its more specific nature, my invention consists in certain details of construction and peculiar combination of parts, all of which will be hereinafter fully described, specifically pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a side view of my invention and shows the manner in which the beam that holds the bags and supports the twine spools positions when the twine is bemg pulled off one of the spools. Fig. 2, is a perspective view of one end of the bag holdmg beam and one of the twine holders and guide therefor. Fig. 3, is a View of the end of the long arm of one of the twine guides. Fig. 8 is a view of the end of the short arm of said guide. Fig. 4, is a s1de elevation of one of the flexible hangers and the thread guide arm cooperatively connected therewith, the parts being in their pendent or normal position. Fig. 5, is a similar View, the fulcrum or pivotal connections of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fil ed October 5, 1909.

Patented May 10, 1910. Serial No. 521,083.

the guide with the hanger being shown in the position they assume when the long arm is pulled down. Fig. 6, is a view of the lower hanger member. Fig. 7 is a View of the upper hanger member. Fig. 8, is a detail view of one end of the beam with the preferred arrangement of bag holder. Fig. 9, shows the two members that constitute the said bag holder detached from the beam.

In the practical application of my invention, and in its complete form, I prefer to arrange the parts as best shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by reference to which it will be seen the same comprises a beam 1, which, as shown, is an indicator beam, it having a number of sizes, designated thereon, each designator 2 being above a package of bags 3, pendent from the beam 1, the said packages being of the different sizes, designated by the numbers on the beam.

Any suitable means may be provided for conveniently suspending the bags from the beam, but I prefer to use the means shown, since, should any one set of bags be used up, a new package can be readily replaced, the manner in which I hang them, as shown, also permitting one bag of any size being readily removed without interfering with the others.

Each package holder consists of a pair of screw rods 44 that screw into the bottom edge of the beam and whose lower ends are bent up to form long hook seats 40, and cooperating with each pair of such rods is what I term a needle since the same punctures the bags and holds them. The needle is a sharp pointed rod 5, one end of which is bent up at right angles and terminates in a laterally projected eye 51. In fitting the needles onto the rods 4 the point a after the bags have been threaded thereon, is hung in the seat 40 of one of the rods 4 and the eye 51 is hung in the seat 40 of the next or adjacent rod 4, it being clear by referring to Fig. 8, that the said seats 40 are of sufficient depth to receive the eye end of one needle and the point end of the next or other needle, and by reason of such arrangement any one of the needles with the bags hung thereon can be readily pulled off the hooks 4-4 without disturbing any of the others.

Mounted on the top of the beam 1 are two twine spool holders 6-6 and these are positioned on the beam so as to counterbalance, as it were, the irregular weight of the different sizes of the paper bags.

The beam 1 is flexibly suspended at any suitable point over the store counter by two hangers, each formed of two members, an upper one 7 and a lower one 8, the upper one 7 being hung from above in any suitable manner, said members being, as shown, wires suspended from the ceiling and fastened thereto, the lower ends being twisted into a loop 70, the purpose of which will presently appear. The lower hanger me1n her 8 is a rod, screw threaded at the lower end to engage the upper edge of beam 1, its upper end being bent back upon itself to form a hook 81. The twine spools are located adjacent the beam hangers, and with each of the said hangers cooperates what I term a guide. Each guide 9 is formed of stout wire rod and at a point nearer one end than the other, the rod is bent upon itself to form two reversely projected but abutting bends or loops 9091, one of which 90 passes through the loop 70 of the upper hanger and the other loop 91 receives the hook end 81 of the member 8.

By forming the guide 9 as shown and described, it has a long arm 93 and a short arm 94: and the bearing loop 91 with which the hook end 81 of the hanger 8 engages, forming, as it were, the fulcrum or pivotal bearing for the guide 9, it being obvious from the drawing, that since the hanger 8 engages the lower loop 91 and the upper loop 90 hangs on the upper hanger 7, that the weight of the bag supporting beam normally pulls on the guide so that its long arm 93 is held elevated a considerable height above the short arm 94 which extends inwardly and downwardly over the twine holding spools. The end of short arm 94 has an eye 9% through which the twine from the spool passes freely, and the outer end of the long arm 93 is also formed with an eye 93 which is elongated and has a contracted inner end or crotch 93 the reason for which will pres ently appear. The twine 00 passes from the spool through the eye 9% of the short arm 9st and to provide for a proper tension it is wound about the guide 9 and then passes down through the eye 93 and hangs over the counter so it can be conveniently grasped when it is desired to use the twine. By forming the eye 93 as stated, when the long arm 93 is swung up, the twine catches in the contracted or crotch end of the eye and is thereby held from pulling back through the said eye and thus leaves the free end of the twine hung pendent from the guide to be conveniently grasped, it being understood that when the twine end is pulled down the guide arm is rocked, which causes the short end to rise and pull ofi the desired length of twine to be used, from the spool, and the twine, when long arm 93 is down as shown in Fig. 1 pulls out of the crotch of eye 93 and passes freely down through the eye 93, the

latter being sufiiciently large to permit twisted or knotted portions of the twine passing freely therethrough. After the desired length of twine has been drawn out and cut off, the weight of the beam pulls the hangers 7 and 8 to their vertically extended position, see Fig. 2, which, by reason of the loop formation in the guides swings the said guide back with its long arm and the end of the twine up, it being also understood the same action occurs when pulling on either of the twine guides.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the complete arrangement of my invention will be readily understood.

Among the numerous advantages in the use of my invention it should be stated, the

same can be conveniently hung over a store counter without taking up room and when placed as in Fig. 1 it can be reached from either side of the counter, and as in practice the beam is numbered on both sides, the sizes of the bags are always in view from either side.

In the practical arrangement, as shown, the weight of the guides with that of the bags lifts the arm 93 eighteen to twenty inches, and each guide has but two eyes to thread the twine through, both large enough so that knots and kinks will pass through freely, thus permitting use of coarse or fine twine.

In Fig. 1 the right hand portion shows ages, a pair of supports for the beam, a

guide for each holder rockably mounted in each support, normally held swung up by the weight of the beam and adapted when swung down, to lift the beam.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a twine holder, pendent supports therefor, a guide shiftably connected to one of said supports, said guide having a thread opening in each end, the opening in the outer end being contracted to form a crotch, the guide connection being shiftable in one direction by pulling the outer end thereof down and in the other direction under the weight of the twine holder.

3. In an appliance of the character described, a twine holder having means for pendently supporting differently weighted articles, a flexible hanger for each end of the beam, a pair of twine spools mounted on the beam to balance it, a guide rockably mounted in each hanger, said guide having an eye at each end for the thread, the rockable connection for each guide being near one end thereof, whereby to provide an outer long arm and an inner short arm.

4. A device of the character described that comprises a goods holding beam, a flexible hanger for each end, each consisting of a pendent member having a loop at the lower end, a rod secured to and projected up from the beam and having a hook end, a twine spool mounted on the beam, one adjacent each hanger, a guide having a pair of adjacent and reversely bent loops, one of which hangs in the loop of the pendent hanger member, the other of which receives the hook of the lower or rod member, said guide having an eye at the inner end to receive the twine from the spool and an eye in the other end formed with an elongated crotch like portion.

CHARLES E. HEDGE. Witnesses:

J AMES 0. PRoo'roR, E. B. SHACKLEY. 

